New Star Wars DVD for Trivia Buffs

Klytus writes "Following the release of the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD comes news of a new DVD to hit store shelves early next year. GamingReport.com has details on a Star Wars: Trivial Pursuit DVD game for release in 2005. Details on if this DVD is to have new or enhanced scenes is unclear. Also up on deck is a Star Wars Risk variant based on what sounds like the new film."

Get this out of the way...

[bje2]

How long until Lucas puts out the "Star Wars: Trivial Pursuit Special Edition DVD"?

Re:Get this out of the way...

[Anonymous Coward]

With digitally enhanced questions. Wow, can't wait!

Re:Get this out of the way...

[DjMd]

And more board games....

We've got "Star Wars" Monopoly, Rasta-Mon-Opoly, Galip-Olopoly, EdnaKrabappoly ...

Re:Get this out of the way...

[The_Mr_Flibble]

How long before activision can sell jtl to the uk ? Is the bigger more important question.

Re:Get this out of the way...

[mikael]

According to various DVD mail order companies, there is also going to be several animated adventures to be released as well.

Star Wars Ewok Adventures: Caravan of Courage / The Battle for Endor

Star Wars Animated Adventures: Droids

Star Wars Animated Adventures: Ewoks

Re:Get this out of the way...

[DoomHaven]

What? No Christmas special?

Re:Get this out of the way...

[Gentlewhisper]

Seems like Lucas still has many years of life left. Jeez, just think of the billions he will be raking in from everyone!

Oh no! We gotta stop him!

Re:Get this out of the way...zzzzzz

[Darth23]

I just bought Hellboy - the EXTRA SPECIAL EDITION, released a few months after Hellboy the regular special edition.

I've ordered Return of the King - the Extended Edition, released a few months after The Return of the King - the Theatrical Edition.

X-men and Spiderman both had Special Editions relased after millions of fans went out and bought the first version. And I can't even count the number of different versions of Akira I've seen on DVD.

Lucas has only released 1 version of each Star Wars movie has

Re:Get this out of the way...zzzzzz

[sadler121]

I've ordered Return of the King - the Extended Edition, released a few months after The Return of the King - the Theatrical Edition.

This is horribly repetitive, to the point of an obligatory reference, but Peter Jackson has said FROM THE VERY BEGINNING that the LOTR would come in TWO versions, the theatrical release, the movie for the public and an extended edition for the fans.

Others my, and do, (obligatory reference to Lucas and making super-duper, special extended editions of Star Wars, this time w

Re:Get this out of the way...

[prell]

Isn't "Star Wars: Trivial Pursuit" redundant?

Re:Get this out of the way...

[FlutterVertigo(gmail]

It's not the special editions.

The bigger observation is you'll either be playing with a group of people where every one of them is a SW nebbish or you'll be playing with everyone who would score a 10% and can't answer very many questions. Either way, the game will border on boring....unless you're obtaining it for collection and selling it on eBay in 2025 (along with 500'000 other people)

First question

[Anonymous Coward]

"Who shot first?"
- rylin

Re:First question

[Karma Farmer]

Could you explain it to me, too? Is there some odd CGI skit with guys named "Hans" and "Jaba?" Did it involve jeopardy? Sean Connery?

Help us out here... because, for joke that confuses Hans for Han, Jaba for Jabba, and Trivial Pursuit for Jeopardy, it's just not very damned funny.

Re:First question

[cyber0ne]

Alex would say Hans; you would say Who shot first

"Hans"? "HANS"? That's it. You are no longer welcome here. Turn in your geek card at the door and go sit in the pit of shame.

Re:First question

[theonetruekeebler]

Instead of "Hans" it should be "hans", which is his login name on the Galactic Smuggler BBS, which, as the we all know, is first name plus first letter of last name. So the g-parent actually gets geekpoints for using Solo's login name.

Hans shoots first... Damn Swede

[Mulletproof]

So is that his login name on the original Galactic Smuggler BBS or the Special Edition?

Re:First question

[Anonymous Coward]

Odd CGI Skit = Episode IV Special Edition
Hans = Han
Jaba = Jabba
Trivial Pursuit = Jeapordy

Re:First question

[Anonymous Coward]

Great... how many star wars "fans" are going about the world saying did you see the cantina scene with HANS AND GUIDO...

Re:First question

[TAGmclaren]

in the forthcoming Star Wars(TM) Monopoly(TM) board game, the player who chooses the Greedo token automatically gets first go.

Re:First question

[bje2]

yeah, but as soon as he moves, the Han token takes him out...

however...

[Savatte]

in the special boxed set version of the game, han and greedo move at the same time.

Re:First question

[Rallion]

(Disclaimer: I know the above was a joke. It was funny.) You know, there actually is already a Star Wars Monopoly game, and a very nice one at that. Episode 1, though. No Greedo.

Re:First question

[ArcticCelt]

Who shot first? a) Greedo b) Han Solo c) Both at the same time d) All of those answers

Re:First question... and answers...

[ArcticCelt]

(Sorry for the first one)

Who shot first?

a) Greedo
b) Han Solo
c) Both at the same time
d) All of those answers

Re:First question

[LDoggg_]

Did anbody the original trilogy? I could have sworn Lucas made few million with it.

I always hear that "Han shot first".
Han was the only one to shoot. Therefore he also shot last.

How about "Greedo never fired a shot".

Re:First question

[prell]

The card reads "In the Mos Eisley cantina scene in A New Hope in which Han Solo meets with, and kills, the bounty hunter Greedo, who shoots first?"

The back of the card (the answer) reads: "NO, YOU'RE WRONG!!!"

Re:First question

[Anonymous Coward]

Han... I mean Greedo... I mean .... /Flys of bridge

XBOX Dashboard

[xabi]

Hope this time this StarWars DVD doesn't kill my XBOX dashboard as latest StarWars extras DVD tried to do.

Re:XBOX Dashboard

[Anonymous Coward]

splurge and spend an extra $29.00 and buy a apex DVD player and get something that play's back DVD's 10 times better than the Xbox and PS2 can.

cripes, the video game systes is for VIDEO GAMES....

Re:XBOX Dashboard

[3terrabyte]

So says some anonymous guy. All the Apex's that have been bought by family at my suggestion still work after a year. And even if not, you can always buy another one at the price.

Re:XBOX Dashboard

[danger_boy_13]

I actually had one of those damn things. One of my relatives got me one for christmas (cheap sons of bitches) and the damn thing fried after 6 months of spotty use. I was using my PS2, but it wouldn't play quite a few of my DVD's (I was biding time till I had money for a new player) then went out and dropped $70 on a new Pioneer DV-270. Very nice player for the price.

Re:XBOX Dashboard

[joper90]

and that supports/has component out does it?

Re:XBOX Dashboard

[Torgo's Pizza]

Idiot. The Star Wars Bonus CD has an Xbox demo on it. Like to see the Apex play an Xbox game...

Re:XBOX Dashboard

[PPGMD]

It wasn't killing your dashboard, it was loading the Star Wars Battle Front demo.

Played the SW:TP board game...

[JazMuadDib]

anyone else find it boringly easy? It's like they wrote the game for people who'd seen the movies 2-3x max.

Re:Played the SW:TP board game...

[Morgahastu]

Of course it's going to be easy. It's based on 5 or 6 films as opposed to the regular game which is based on everything known to man.

Re:Played the SW:TP board game...

[Howski]

You may want to play a few more times. At first glance, the questions can seem pretty general. However, just when you think you've completely PWN3D all your friends at the game, you'll come across a question that just boggles the mind. Like, what's the name of the character who Vader speaks to when he first boards the Death Star early in RotJ? and questions about dialogue with mind-boggling specificity.

(By the same token, though, there are already a few cards I have removed from the box because they we

Re:Played the SW:TP board game...

[Karma Farmer]

(By the same token, though, there are already a few cards I have removed from the box because they were erroneous. So, YMMV.)

You're kidding, right? Someone put out a Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game, and they didn't vet it past a geek first?

i remember...

[Suchetha]

.. playing it while in line for the first showing of episode 1 (was that so long ago??)

one of the questions was 'which side of the speeder was threepio sitting on when they drove into Mos Eisly?' (or summat suchlike)

it was scary that i could close my eyes and see the whole scene.

(and i saw the ORIGINAL scene not the SE scene)

good times

Suchetha

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

big surprize ANOTHER starwars dvd about nothing. just says starwars on it. Lucas...

why cant i help but remeber the light saber fight over the lava we heard about?

Re:Line up to the Star Wars Tit

[NanoGator]

You know you don't have to buy it, right?

And soon to be released....

[DeDmeTe]

Star Wars Stratego... If you guys (and gals) haven't seen "Triumph the Insult Dog's" "bit" at the Star Wars premier.. do yourself a favor and check it out. "Spoilers? Here's a spoiler... you will die alone." http://www.milkandcookies.com/article/924/ [milkandcookies.com]

Re:And soon to be released....

[LTB_Enterprises]

Isn't there already Star Wars Cluedo? It was Han, in the Cantina, with the blaster...

Re:And soon to be released....

[SeanDuggan]

{wrinkles brow} Not sure if I'm utterly missing the joke here, but there already has been Star Wars Stratego [about.com]. Heck, it's been out long enough that it landed in Kroger's $5 section. Pretty decent game, at that. There's standard Stratego and there's also a version where some of the named pieces get special powers along the lines of added movement or being able to reveal an enemy piece without attacking.

Re:And soon to be released....

[dr_dank]

Oh yes, on the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog DVD, that whole part of harassing Star Wars geeks as they camp out for Episode II is worth the price of admission alone.

My favorite is when he went up to a guy in a full Darth Vader costume, asking an innocuous question about the buttons on the front of the costume, then followed it up with "which one of these buttons do you press to have your parents come pick you up?".

Re:And soon to be released....

[dswensen]

I do enjoy that bit, but only for the wonderful irony of watching a balding forty-year-old man with a puppet dog on his hand call other people losers.

Let me summarize all future posts

[zymurgy_cat]

Oh boy. A SW story on Slashdot. Let me sum up all the posts to save us all time (and see how much karma I can burn):

• Lucas ruined SW.
• Spielberg should have directed it.
• Han shot first, damnit!
• Oh boy, Lucas is milking us for more money after ruining a great story.
• Why can't they make a movie out of the books, those were good!
• Don't let Lucas direct another movie based on a book, he'll ruin it.
• Lucas has replaced good story telling with glitzy special effects.
• @#$%ing dancing Ewoks. What was Lucas smoking?
• (insert random Jar-Jar rant of your choice)

Did I miss anything?

Re:Let me summarize all future posts

[antifoidulus]

You forgot: Obligatory comment about Carrie Fisher, not to mention the most aggregious offense: digitally editing out a nipple that was there for 2 or 3 frames!

Re:Let me summarize all future posts

[Pxtl]

Yeah, that one guy who says "I don't get what the big deal about the Star Wars movies was... they were fun kids movies, and so are the new ones!"

Re:Let me summarize all future posts

[CrazyTalk]

Here's a couple you missed:

Jabba should not have been in ep. 4
What were they thinking making Hayden whatsisname the ghost at the end of jedi?

Re:Let me summarize all future posts

[Spyro VII]

Yeah, you missed this one:

* Let me sum up all the posts to save us all time (and see how much karma I can burn).

Re:Let me summarize all future posts

[hambonewilkins]

Who the hell ever asks Spielberg to direct it? Dear Lord, it's bad enough as is!

I don't know what you mean...

[Trejkaz]

I, for one, would love to see more sharks in my Star Wars!

Re:Let me summarize all future posts

[Geoff-with-a-G]

Did I miss anything?

I believe you left out "Natalie Portman and hot grits."

Not a hot topic.

[Dan East]

The lack of discussion regarding this story tells volumes.

Dan East

Re:Not a hot topic.

[Dystopian Rebel]

The lack of discussion regarding this story tells volumes.

George Lucas responds: It DOES? Enough volumes to make three more films? Woo hoooo!

Re:Not a hot topic.

[celerityfm]

The alterslash graph confirms. Kinda neat too http://alterslash.org/img/sg_New_Star_Wars_DVD_for _Trivia_Buffs.png? [alterslash.org]

The perfect gift...

[Anita Coney]

For that 45 year old son living in your basement.

Games on DVD

[th173]

I find it hard to navigate in a menu with my current remote control (bad recognition) and also the long loading times between each action.

I wonder if one could make a game so you feel like playing or is it just as with those other extras on DVDs who are nice but never ever looked on because of these drawbacks?

Re:Games on DVD

[Rallion]

On the Beauty and the Beast DVD release (which belongs to my younger sister) there's a game that actually involves timing. On slow DVD players, like mine, it doesn't even work -- and it's required to access many special features! (Unless you have a method to cheat around it, which said crappy player doesn't.) I got to the stuff using the computer, but that was terrible design.

Impossible Game

[CrazyTalk]

How can a Star Wars Trivia game even be possible, when the movie changes every few years with each new special edition and home release? The dialog keeps changing, entire scenes are added and deleted, even the actors that voice the characters (e.g. Boba Fett) change!

Re:Impossible Game

[th173]

See it as a challenge.

Maybe all those version are only out there to make the game a bit more interessting, which the boardgame actually wasn't ('cause it referred only to the original movies, also it was in the hype with the special edition).

Re:Impossible Game

[echocharlie]

That just adds more possibilities to trivia questions. Imagine it:

"Who provided the voice for Boba Fett in the 1999 DVD release of the edited edition of the Star Wars collection in the second scene where Jabba appears?"

Now that's trivia!

Re:Impossible Game

[dswensen]

Well, according to Lucas, the older, unedited versions of the film "technically no longer exist". So I guess "technically", the next time he changes the film in a few more years, this game will also cease to exist. And then you can buy it all over again, the way he always intended you to buy it -- the original vision of the trivia game that couldn't be done because of technological limitations!

More stuff

[carnivore302]

Last week I bought Inside the world of Star Wars [amazon.com]. Of course I haven't received it yet (living in the Netherlands, shipping takes a while) but it looks like a nice thing to have.

Another question...

[Taulin]

I can already see this question in the game... "How many editions of the original Star Wars were released to the public? Including VHS, DVD, LD and CED".

Re:Another question...

[Spacejock]

Can I rephrase your question? To whit:
"To the nearest dozen or so, how many editions of..." etc etc
I mean, you have to give people a chance of getting the answer right. Right?

Re:Another question...

[clarkc3]

would 'Turkish Star Wars' count too?

Re:Hey George! SHOVE IT!

[Taulin]

Or.. fight, Anakin whine, Anakin moan, get bored, watch short fight climax, post to favorite forum of how it sucks and you will not see the next movie.

Star Wars Trivia.....

[Magickcat]

Much more effective than a carbonite chastity belt.

Reminds me of those old VCR games

[Kerhop]

While visiting family not long ago I found in the storage room a bunch of old VCR board games where at times you'd be instructed to watch the next five minutes of a VHS tape to determine your fate (i.e. winner of a WWF wrestling match, for instance). I wonder if this DVD will be as successful/unsuccessful as the Star Wars VHS Game [echostation.com].

from the yeah-but-how-MANY-bothans-died dept.

[p3d0]

I just have to say that's the funniest "from the dept." line I have ever seen here. (Not that that's saying much.)

Re:Coming Soon! The Great Escape (directed by Luca

[JonnyCalcutta]

And Archie Ives shoots first.

Re:Greedo Draws first but Han Shoots first

[miller701]

Well of course Greedo drew first, Han's heading out of the cantina and bang there's Greedo with blaster drawn.

Han would have to have massive Jedi skills to forsee that.

Sheesh!

The trick to Star Wars Trivial Pursuit

[Jack9]

Last I checked, the most common answer to Star Wars trivial pursuit questions, was Hoth. If there is a reference to a planet or system, the answer is typically Hoth.

Being a DVD, you can be sure that many of the new questions will be visual.